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Medieval cathedrals and churches in a traditional religious society

TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS SOCIETY – the spiritual atmosphere of medieval cathedrals and churches helped inspire and reinforce religious thinking and behaviour. Medieval cathedrals and churches in a traditional religious society

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Medieval cathedrals and churches in a traditional religious society

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  1. TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS SOCIETY– the spiritual atmosphere of medieval cathedrals and churches helped inspire and reinforce religious thinking and behaviour

  2. Medieval cathedrals and churches in a traditional religious society Imagine that you were an illiterate peasant coming from your mud hut with no windows into a medieval cathedral – the house of God. What would the size, beauty and majesty, and the sung Gregorian chant of that place say to you about God and religion? The cathedrals and churches were symbolic of the overwhelming dominance of cultural religious meanings that regulated the lives of people in these times. Some people today still live with this same sense of dominant religious cultural meanings. For others. Even if they retain nominal religious affiliation, there is not the same prominence of cultural religious meanings in the way they live out their lives.

  3. Video of some English medieval cathedrals from the air

  4. Some pictures or English & European Cathedrals at ground level Durham cathedral UK, from 12th century

  5. York cathedral, UK, from 11th century (Constantine was here in 306 when he became Roman emperor on the death of his father Constantius)

  6. Lincoln cathedral, UK, 11th century

  7. Religious stories in stained glass – the first medieval ‘powerpoints’ for a mainly illiterate people!

  8. Bath Abbey, UK, 15th century on site of church from 10th century

  9. Bayeux cathedral, Normandy France, 11th and 12th century

  10. Bayeux cathedral, Normandy

  11. Cologne cathedral, Germany, built 13th century with additions to 18th century

  12. Regentsburgcathedral, Germany, mainly 14th century, dating back to 6th century

  13. Melk Abbey, Austria, 18th century

  14. Church adorned with gold leaf,, Melk Abbey, Austria

  15. The Duomo, Siena, Italy. From 13th century

  16. The Duomo, Siena Italy, from 13th century

  17. St Peters, Rome, 16th century

  18. Hagia Sophia, 6th century, Constantinople (Istanbul)

  19. Some think that in Westernised, consumer oriented, market governed societies, a new sort of cathedral has emerged

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